Phantom Images

Generated html is giving me several "phantom" images ... which messes up the table and kills the slideshow when it attempts to load one of them ... using dupral 5.3 and bg 5.x-2.9 / everything else is working great, just these phantom images that populate every table/gallery i create

the pictures that do not exist point to existing file names with additional leading spaces, such as: " picture.jpg" and "._picture.jpg" instead of the plain "picture.jpg

here is an example of a picture that does not exist:

<td align="center" bgcolor="#000000" style="padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;vertical-align: middle;">
<a href="http://localhost:8888/drupal-5.3/files/albums/test4/._picture.jpg" rel="lightbox[1901693]" title="  picture"><img style="display: block;border:0" src="http://localhost:8888/drupal-5.3/modules/brilliant_gallery/image.php?imgp=L1ZvbHVtZXMvRFJBR09OXzI1MC9DUkFOQkVSUllDT0FTVE1FRElBL2RydXBhbC01LjMvZmlsZXMvYWxidW1zL3Rlc3Q0Ly5fcGljdHVyZS5qcGc=&imgw=50&imgh=0" /></a>
</td>

and one that does exist:

<td align="center" bgcolor="#000000" style="padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;vertical-align: middle;">
<a href="http://localhost:8888/drupal-5.3/files/albums/test4/picture.jpg" rel="lightbox[1901693]" title="picture"><img style="display: block;border:0" src="http://localhost:8888/drupal-5.3/modules/brilliant_gallery/image.php?imgp=L1ZvbHVtZXMvRFJBR09OXzI1MC9DUkFOQkVSUllDT0FTVE1FRElBL2RydXBhbC01LjMvZmlsZXMvYWxidW1zL3Rlc3Q0L3BpY3R1cmUuanBn&imgw=50&imgh=33" /></a>
</td>

Any ideas or help on this is appreciated.